❖ The Swiss are so upset about “Fat-Cat Pay” that the whole country will vote March 3rd on having compensation for CEOs set by shareholders. They’re being warned that such a move will “drive out tax-paying companies”.

❖ That 2011 WI Supreme Court uproar–with one Justice (Prosser) supposedly placing his hands around the neck of a female Justice (Bradley)–is back. Justice Bradley has ”offered details about . . . ‘a history of abusive behavior in our workplace that has escalated . . . to physical contact.’” Click through to her document.

❖ PA’s Attorney General Kathleen Kane (D) has rejected Gov. Tom Corbett (R) administration’s “contract with a British firm to manage the $3.5 billion” state lottery, since it “contravenes the Pennsylvania constitution” and “usurps the power of the Gaming Control Board”.

❖ OSHA “has cited the Bacardi Bottling Corp. with 12 alleged safety violations following the death of a 21-year old temporary worker who was killed on his first day on the job.” According to OSHA, “A workers’ first day at work shouldn’t be his last day on earth.”

❖ At least “84,000 gallons” of hydraulic fracking wastewater spilled from a broken well-head in a field about 4 miles north of Windsor”, CO.

❖ OH’s Hardrock Excavating’s CEO “faces up to three years in prison, a $250,000 fine” for 20,000+ gallons of wastewater pumped into a sewer and on to “the Mahoning River watershed”. Two more companies involved have had their permits revoked.